BPS2025 Full Program

Graduate Student Breakfast 7:30 am - 8:30 am, Room 403A

805-SympSelect 9:30 am NANOCOMPUTING AGENTS: HACKING CELLULAR BEHAVIOR. Nikolay V. Dokholyan 806-Symp 9:50 am INTRACELLULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY. Yamuna Krishnan Platform Translation Dynamics 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 515A Co-Chairs Hong Jin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Francisco Aaron Cruz Navarrete, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA 807-Plat 8:15 am CRYO-EM STRUCTURES OF 50-80 KDA BACTERIAL NON-CODING RNAS AT 3.0-3.5 Å RESOLUTION. Yao He , Janet Zhong, YUAN YANG, Hong Zhou, Juli Feigon 808-Plat 8:30 am MAPPING CO-TRANSCRIPTIONAL FOLDING TRANSITIONS IN MANGA NESE-SENSING RIBOSWITCHES. Christine Stephen, Danea Palmer, Rav ish Sharma, Tatiana V. Mishanina 809-Plat 8:45 am HIGH-THROUGHPUT IDENTIFICATION OF DESTABILIZING MRNA SE QUENCE ELEMENTS IN B. SUBTILIS . Manraj S. Gill , Isabelle Kim, James C. Taggart, Gene-Wei Li 810-Plat 9:00 am DIRECT RNA-RNA INTERACTIONS PROMOTE COORDINATED TRANSLA TION OF HETEROMERIC ION CHANNELS. Lisandra Flores Aldama , An nabelle S. Hoth, Lucas de Carvalho, Ian Seim, Fang Liu, Amy S. Gladfelter, Gail A. Robertson 811-Plat 9:15 am CONSERVED FUNCTION OF DRG GTPASES TO PROMOTE PROTEIN SYN THESIS IN THE RIBOSOME. Christopher Hawk, Hong Jin 812-Plat 9:30 am Β-AMINO ACIDS REDUCE TERNARY COMPLEX STABILITY AND ALTER THE TRANSLATION ELONGATION MECHANISM. Francisco Aaron Cruz Navarrete , Wezley Griffin, Yuk-Cheung Chan, Maxwell Martin, Jose L. Alejo Amaya, Ryan A. Brady, Kundhavai Natchiar, Isaac J. Knudson, Roger B. Altman, Alanna Schepartz, Scott J. Miller, Scott C. Blanchard 813-Plat 9:45 am Travel Award Winner RIBOGLOW-FLIM AS QUANTITATIVE TOOL TO VISUALIZE ENDOGENOUS RNAS IN LIVE MAMMALIAN CELLS. Bindu Modi , Esther Braselmann 814-FlashTalk 10:00 am STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF RIBOSOME-STALLING PEPTIDES IN THE RIBOSOMAL EXIT TUNNEL UNCOVERED BY MD SIMULATIONS. Ole Berendes , Sara Gabrielli, Helmut Grubmüller, Lars V. Bock 815-FlashTalk 10:05 am ADVANCED IMAGING OF RIBOSOMAL ASSEMBLY AND RRNA OPERON ORGANIZATION IN E COLI VIA MINFLUX. Sijin Chen , Kai Sheng, Susanna Ekholm-Reed, James R. Williamson 816-FlashTalk 10:10 am MULTITASKING AT THE RIBOSOME: HOW DOES NAC SENSE DIFFERENT NASCENT PROTEINS? Radoslaw J. Gora

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This breakfast presents an opportunity for graduate student Annual Meeting attendees to meet and discuss the issues they face in their cur rent career stage. Limited to the first 100 attendees. Moderators Peying Fong, Kansas State University, USA Holly Holman, University of Utah, USA Angela Greenman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Registration/Exhibitor Registration 7:30 am - 5:00 pm, West Lobby Poster Viewing 8:00 am - 10:00 pm, West Exhibit Hall Symposium Supramolecular Assemblies in Membrane Signaling 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Petree Hall C Chair Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, China 800-Symp 8:15 am STRUCTURAL BASIS OF OPIOID RECEPTOR SIGNALING. Tao Che 801-Symp 8:40 am ARCHITECTURE OF THE HUMAN ERYTHROCYTE ANKYRIN-1 COMPLEX. Francesca Vallese No Abstract 9:05 am ELECTROSOMES: SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED. Daniel Minor 802-SympSelect 9:30 am STRUCTURE OF THE FLOTILLIN COMPLEX IN A NATIVE MEMBRANE ENVI RONMENT. Ziao Fu , Roderick MacKinnon No Abstract 9:50 am CRYOSEEK: A STRATEGY TO DISCOVER SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES USING CRYO-EM. Nieng Yan Symposium Engineering Biological Macromolecules for Cellular Biophysics 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Petree Hall D Chair Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, USA 803-Symp 8:15 am CHEMICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC TOOLS FOR STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY IN CELLS. Galia Debelouchina No Abstract 8:40 am ENGINEERING THE NANOSCALE STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGY OF THE CEL LULAR GLYCOCALYX. Matthew Paszek 804-Symp 9:05 am A WINDOW INTO LIPID PEROXYL RADICALS, PEROXIDATION AND ELEC TROPHILIC STRESS IN CELLS. Gonzalo Cosa

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